Chapter 71: Sweeping Away

Lingyun's fingers danced rapidly across the keyboard, inputting command after command into the computer, and the software he had prepared launched one by one. In the ocean of the internet, a giant dragon bared its fangs at those who were wreaking havoc on the Huaxia network.

"Hehe, this should do it." A foreign hacker hacked into a small website, pasted a tampered map, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The next moment, his expression changed. On his computer, the image of a Huaxia divine dragon appeared silently, and then his screen suddenly went black. Afterward, all the hardware inside his computer began to run at an overload, the cooling fans spinning crazily and emitting a whirring sound.

The hacker stared at his computer in a daze; no matter how he operated it, the computer remained indifferent, just doing its own thing. After a short while, bursts of noise came from the computer. With a "zzt" sound, an unpleasant smell wafted out, and the entire computer went quiet. This computer had been burned out by the heat generated from its own overload. The hacker was beyond tears; this computer had been meticulously modified by him and was worth a fortune, yet now it was scrapped right in front of him.

This situation appeared one after another before every hacker who had invaded the Huaxia network. Perhaps after today, computer malls everywhere would make a small fortune, as the computers these hackers used were no ordinary goods; most had been modified by themselves, and the cost of these modifications was naturally not low.

Lingyun stretched his fingers slightly; what just happened was only a small appetizer, clearing out the small fry with a wave of area-of-effect skills. After all, nobody likes having a bunch of enemy cannon fodder jumping around them.

"Damn, which great master made a move? A whole bunch of invading hackers were taken out in one go." Some Huaxia hackers quickly discovered that the activities of many foreign hackers had vanished, and they talked about it in a private discussion group.

"Clearing out small fry isn't a particularly impressive move. The most important thing now is to withstand the attacks from those top-tier hackers," someone else said.

"Don't worry, the great master will definitely withstand their attacks." Clearly, that previous hacker had already been won over by Lingyun's large-scale attack.

Lingyun's first target was the hacker who had invaded the Modu monitoring system. Powerful data streams continuously slammed into the defensive wall constructed by the foreign hackers. Under the data streams, which were like sharp swords, those defensive walls were like paper, easily pierced through.

"Damn, watch out, a Huaxia expert is here!" The hacker who built the defensive wall exclaimed, immediately starting to build a brand-new defensive wall.

However, they had clearly underestimated Lingyun's strength. The newly constructed defensive wall was also easily destroyed. Lingyun used the most brutal method to destroy all the defensive walls, entered the monitoring network, seized the highest authority, and then kicked all the hackers inside out. After kicking the foreign hackers out, Lingyun handed the highest authority over to the person in charge of the monitoring system, while he himself pursued that group of hackers.

"Damn, what is this guy's background? How is he so powerful?" 666 exclaimed in shock; he was one of the people who had invaded the monitoring network.

"Watch out, the opponent is catching up!" 666 warned.

"We are top-tier hackers, not those small shrimp; we won't be caught easily. Let me tease him!" Damula laughed.

"Hmph, do you really think I can't catch you?" A cold sneer curled the corner of Lingyun's mouth, and command after command was issued from his hands.

"Damn, who on earth is this guy?" In the discussion group, Damula suddenly screamed. "He has hacked into my computer."

"What?"

"Caught one!" Lingyun laughed, pressing the Enter key at the same time. In the discussion group, before Damula could even say a word, his avatar went black.

Lingyun manipulated his data to form an army, directly bombarding the enemy's network.

"It's here." In a dark basement, a gaunt man's hands tapped the keyboard incessantly. No one would have guessed that this unremarkable person was Underworld King, the top-ranked hacker on the Hacker Dark List. He had used his strongest means to hide himself in the deepest part of the internet ocean, while simultaneously constructing layers of defensive walls on his computer. "I want to see what kind of tricks this newly appeared hacker has, and what he can do to me."

However, Underworld King still greatly underestimated Lingyun's strength. Lingyun's capture software had already locked onto his data stream on the web and was continuously advancing in his direction. This Underworld King was the one with the highest strength among the foreign invading hackers, and also the one jumping around the most joyfully; Lingyun naturally aimed his spearhead at him at the first opportunity.

It must be said that the decoys Underworld King laid out on the internet were quite effective, actually deceiving the tracking software Lingyun designed for a short time. Although the tracking software reacted within five minutes and re-tracked him, this was enough to show that he was worthy of his strength as the number one on the Hacker Dark List. After all, Lingyun was an outlier; in this world, perhaps no one had been born yet who could compete with him in hacking skills.

In the basement, Underworld King's expression was extremely grave. He discovered that he seemed to have truly provoked an incredible figure. The layers of decoys he had laid out were actually seen through in such a short time. Now, the opponent had locked onto his location in the internet ocean and was coming straight for him.

Lingyun's data stream directly invaded Underworld King's computer, and the layers of defense Underworld King had constructed were torn to shreds by Lingyun using the most brutal method. Underworld King's expression changed drastically; he had not expected the opponent to break through all his arrangements on the internet and attack his computer in such a short time.

Underworld King's fingers flew across the keyboard, struggling to lay down defensive wall after defensive wall to counter Lingyun's attack. No one knew that Underworld King, who excelled at attacking, was even more powerful in computer defense. However, this was of no use, because the person he was facing was Lingyun. Defensive network after defensive network was broken, and Lingyun inserted a brand-new program into his computer.

After only a few minutes of effort, Underworld King stopped tapping the keyboard and stared at the computer screen in a daze. On the computer screen, a golden Huaxia giant dragon appeared, circling back and forth on his screen. At the same time, his computer followed in the footsteps of those previous hackers, turning into a piece of junk amidst the overload of its internal hardware.

"What kind of monster have we provoked?" Underworld King roared in his heart.

Seeing Underworld King's avatar in the discussion group suddenly go dark, a bad premonition rose in the heart of everyone in the group. Could it be that Underworld King had already been finished off by that unknown hacker?

Having scrapped Underworld King's computer, Lingyun locked onto another famous hacker—"Shi". This guy had been jumping around just as joyfully; it was he who suggested posting those incomplete Huaxia maps on those websites. A few minutes later, Shi's avatar in the discussion group went dark.

After finishing off Shi's computer, Lingyun aimed his target at two other powerhouses on the Hacker Dark List: the second-ranked Underworld King and the third-ranked Doomsday. This was a battle without any suspense; under Lingyun's attack, these two people didn't even last five minutes before Lingyun compromised their computers.

Underworld King and Doomsday stared at their computers in disbelief. They were the top three existences on the Hacker Dark List; when their computers were attacked by others, they had the confidence to retreat unscathed from anyone, even the number one on the Dark List. This was not arrogance, but the self-confidence of being among the most powerful hackers in the world. But now, what was the situation? An unknown Huaxia hacker had compromised and scrapped their computers in no more than five minutes. What kind of concept was this? A chill rose in both of their hearts simultaneously; something big was about to happen.

With these few as the start, the subsequent events were like dominoes being pushed over; one famous hacker's avatar after another dimmed in the discussion group.

These hackers, without exception, stared at the computers in front of them with dazed eyes; their computers were all scrapped. Among them, even the person who lasted the longest had not exceeded five minutes.

In less than an hour, Lingyun, all by himself, swept through everyone who had invaded the Huaxia internet world with a rank higher than fifty on the Hacker Dark List, giving them a good lesson on what it meant that there are people above people and heavens beyond heavens, and what it meant that the vast Huaxia is full of hidden talents.